From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2000-05-20T10:15:22-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02912] [Fwd: Supernews has refused to update list]

Andrew wrote:
> 
> In article <ylaehlyj74.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >Jay Denebeim <denebeim@deepthot.org> writes:
> >> That's pretty pathetic.  It wouldn't surprise me if supernews thought
> >> the group was too small to bother with.
> >
> >Supernews has stopped carrying exactly the canonical Big Eight list?  That
> >would be really sad, and very surprising.  I highly doubt that's the case.
> 
> Well, there are a couple of groups still on our list that are technically
> bogus, and new groups don't tend to get added for a couple of weeks unless
> someone asks for them (and additions are done manually, usually weekly,
> and Jeremy (who does them) is away this week), and news.lists.filters is
> currently missing for technical reasons, but other than that, we do
> follow the big-8 list.
> 
> Certainly a request to add a newly-created big-8 group would not be
> refused (though for the reasons above it would not happen immediately).
> 
> --
> Andrew, Supernews (a service of Critical Path, Inc.)
> http://www.supernews.com - UK and US individual and corporate NNTP services

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